800 doctors mobilised to counter Sudan strike

The Khartoum state Health Ministry has appointed 800 doctors to fill the gaps in the state’s hospitals, crippled as a result of the ongoing strike by doctors.

The state authorities have also mobilised medical professionals attached to the police, military institutions, and regular forces. Hospital directors in Khartoum have appealed to the striking doctors to continue to work in the hospitals’ emergency sections, and resort to dialogue to resolve their grievances.

Mohammed El Nagi of the Central Committee of Doctors in Sudan has announced the willingness of Committee to engage in dialogue about the demands of doctors and scheduling the response to their demands.

He said they have not yet received any response from the Ministry of Health about their demands.

El Nagi asserts that the hospital administrations’ threats to dismiss doctors and temptations to increase incentives “will not stop the doctors from demanding their rights and the rights of citizens to an improved work environment that is appropriate for a human being”.

The El Safi hospital administration in Bahri has threatened to cancel the interns’ training period at the hospital and threatened striking doctors with dismissal if they do not return to work within 48 hours.

Paralysis

A state of paralysis has prevailed in the hospitals in Khartoum state as a result of the halt of emergency services following the strike of thousands of doctors in protest against the deterioration of work environment, lack of services and the increase in assaults on doctors.

The strike intensified yesterday by Doctors in Khartoum and El Gezira states after an attack on a woman doctor at Hassahisa hospital in El Gezira.